Updated the long description for the --perms option.

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Wayne Davison
2003-05-16 04:23:34 +00:00
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@@ -507,8 +507,13 @@ the source and target are on the local machine.
dit(bf(--no-whole-file)) Turn off --whole-file, for use when it is the
default.
dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes rsync to update the remote
permissions to be the same as the local permissions.
dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes rsync to set the destination
permissions to be the same as the source permissions.
Without this option, each new file gets its permissions set based on the
source file's permissions and the umask at the receiving end, while all
other files (including updated files) retain their existing permissions
(which is the same behavior as other file-copy utilities, such as cp).
dit(bf(-o, --owner)) This option causes rsync to set the owner of the
destination file to be the same as the source file. On most systems,